Category: Gratitude

Learning how to live life matters shit if you don’t actually live it. You can read all the books you want, all the great wisdom from all history’s clearest thinkers, but if you don’t actually live life, enjoy your existence (which is a privilege) and do philosophy (as in putting into practice …

That’s the thing about being human. That our capability and potential is huge. And being human means we should channel it in a way that serves other people and serves the total nature and everything. – From All We Do by Oh Wonder Throughout all the years, the 200,000 of the …

Epictetus once placed an iron lamp in his home next to his household gods (valuables). He heard a noise at the door and next thing it was gone. He reflected on it and wasn’t fussed about it. He said: To-morrow, my friend, you will find an earthenware lamp; for a …

The wealthiest person is a pauper at times, Compared to the man with a satisfied mind. (from Satisfied Mind) This is not the most well-known cover that Jeff Buckley recorded, but one thing this guy did amazingly well was to give a cover an unforgettable, Jeff Buckley-ey feel. He recorded it for a …

I’ve written about gratitude on this blog more than I have my love for Snufkin or my hate for Murphy’s Law – Here, here, here, here, here, here, oh and also here. Reason is that when you’re grateful, it’s impossible to feel hard done by. Gratitude crowds out all negativity. It’s impossible to feel shitty, …

The people we meet all make and shape the person who we are. And the most inspirational and virtuous ones are ideally the ones we try to live like. I’ve been fortunate enough to have met and gotten to know many people who are exactly those two things. One of the …

If you think to yourself ‘I’m invincible’, what’s to say it’s not true? Whatever you think about yourself, it’s true. But I’m not saying in terms of the physical you. Because if someone walks up to you and shoots you with a handgun, point blank, right in the face, or walks …

If you can read this, you are fortunate to have something that millions of people don’t have around the world – eyesight. And you’re breathing. And that’s something billions can no longer do. Be grateful.

In the good times or bad, go out at night and just look up. The stars have seen everything –all the problems, failures, milestones and successes of everyone ever on Earth. There’s nothing new or shocking to them. Jerry Seinfeld’s going to be remembered as one of the greatest comedians …

…depending on how strong you are. Yesterday I randomly had a chat with a dude I met while teaching a class at the library. He’s an ex-SAS soldier and he’d been shot 16 times including through his voice box. He told me he was grateful to even have his voice …